Square Roots unveils Tokyo company to blend traditional Japanese farming with high-tech indoor ag
February 20, 2025
The network of indoor farms will use the Square Roots IP and modular farming platform to grow specialty crops.
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Progress report: Where are vertical farming’s biggest leafy green growers now?
February 13, 2025
Plenty’s recent valuation slash feels like the end of a long, drawn-out death sentence for vertically farmed leafy greens. Is it actually?
With $115m in new funding, 80 Acres Farms tackles ‘the next big unlock for vertical farming’: plant genetics
February 11, 2025
The company has also acquired Israeli biotech company Plantae for an undisclosed sum.
Renewable energy now a ‘top priority’ for indoor agriculture: report
January 21, 2025
More growers seek technologies that reduce operational costs and support sustainability efforts, according to Agritecture’s CEA census.
Brief: Vertical farmer Dream Harvest auctions off $8m of un-used kit purchased new in 2022
January 9, 2025
According to Silicon Valley Disposition, which is handling the sale on January 14-16, the auction features equipment “purchased new in 2022 for $8,000,000, never put into production.”
Generate Capital on backing vertical farming’s survivors: ‘We believe there is an opportunity and a better way’
August 23, 2024
Generate Capital recently invested $50 million in Grow Up Farms, which runs a renewable-energy-powered vertical farm in the UK.
Deeptech startup Sylvarum’s co-founder on improving food security in Asia by “electro hacking” plants
June 18, 2024
Electro-stimulation can improve germination, boost tolerance to stress, and accelerate plant growth, says Sylvarum CEO Guadalupe Murga.
Brief: Vertical farming company Oishii opens solar-powered facility to grow ’20x’ more strawberries to meet market demand
June 4, 2024
The Amatelas Farm will increase production of Oishii’s popular Koyo Berry.
From a “scrappy” research project in Scotland to global Giga Farms: IGS former CEO David Farquhar reflects
May 28, 2024
“I’m proud to look back on the differences compared to the R&D project that it was six years earlier.”
Meet the Founder: hexafarms bets on indoor ag: ‘We want to push the limits of AI in this space’
May 17, 2024
Berlin, Germany-based hexafarms just raised $1.4 million in pre-seed funding to bring its AI and sensor tech to indoor growers in Europe.
Meet the Founder: Neatleaf’s Elmar Mair discusses the critical role of autonomy in ag: “It takes a lot of anxiety out of cultivation”
April 19, 2024
Neatleaf’s CEO and co-founder talks ag robotics, scaling a hardware startup, and why it started in cannabis.
To boldly go… fueled by mycoprotein & greens: Maia Farms and Ecoation win Canadian grand prize in Deep Space Food Challenge
April 10, 2024
The Maia Farms & Ecoation growing system for mycelium and fresh produce can make 700kg of food a year in a device the size of a wardrobe.
Mushroom vertical farming company Smallhold files for bankruptcy; firm in ‘worse financial shape than previously disclosed’
February 20, 2024
Financial troubles along with a downturn in venture capital and demand for specialty mushrooms are behind Smallhold’s recent filing.
Data snapshot: From insect ag and vertical farming to aquaculture… the top 20 deals in Novel Farming Systems in 2023
January 11, 2024
Funding in Novel Farming Systems—an AgFunder category spanning indoor farming, insect ag, aquaculture, and algae production—fell off a cliff last year.
From precision ag primers to women entrepreneurs, here are our top 10 guest posts of 2023
December 26, 2023
Our top guest articles in 2023 are are a mix of recent thought leadership pieces and several items that date back as far as 2017.
Celebrating 10 years in agrifoodtech with special AgFunder e-zine!
December 18, 2023
Foodtech + agtech = agrifoodtech. Check out our potted history of one of the world’s most politically charged—and critically important—industries over the last 10 years, with data, analysis, and interviews with Climate Corp, John Deere, FBN, Impossible Foods, Mosa Meat, and more…
TechBrew Robotics rebrands as 4AG Robotics, raises $17.5m to solve the mushroom harvesting challenge with robotics
November 15, 2023
4AG has developed an autonomous harvesting robot it says can greatly alleviate labor challenges in the mushroom industry.
People moves: Aerofarms shuffle continues, Howard Schultz & Starbucks part ways, Regrow Ag enlists MongoDB vet
October 16, 2023
Western Growers appoints a new VP, Omeat appoints a chief strategy officer & new execs join Diageo.
Data snapshot: Fish, flies and algae outshine crop CEA in the $600m+ of novel farming systems funding so far in 2023
September 6, 2023
The novel farming systems category has raised $826 million so far in 2023, according to preliminary data from AgFunder.
Equilibrium & Bosch Growers submit winning bids to acquire AppHarvest’s KY greenhouse facilities
September 5, 2023
Longtime AppHarvest backer Equilibrium submitted the lone bid for the former’s 60-acre greenhouse facilities.
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